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Visa stated in an official blog post that stablecoin-linked cards are one of the fastest-growing segments of the network. In the second fiscal quarter, over 160 stablecoin-linked card projects launched globally, with payment volumes increasing nearly 200% year-over-year, and an annualized settlement rate exceeding $20 billion, growing more than 15 times year-over-year.Visa pointed out that its collaboration with Credit Coop to launch a stablecoin-based revolving credit tool provides daily settlement funds for early stablecoin card projects, and the borrowing costs for some participating projects have decreased by more than 30%.

According to the Straits Times, Telegram experienced a service outage on the morning of September 8. Users in Singapore began to report issues around 10:20, with Downdetector reporting nearly 4,000 incidents shortly after 10:30, mainly related to the app and messaging features.As of 11:30, the number of outage reports had decreased to about 350, and Telegram services are gradually recovering. Currently, Telegram has not disclosed the cause of the outage.

Supply chain sources revealed that due to the overall cost surge, Intel's PC CPUs have been gradually increasing in price over the past year, with a tentative additional increase of 10% expected in early October.In the context of a slight decline projected for the PC terminal market in 2027, Intel still chooses to raise CPU prices. Supply chain analysis indicates that if Intel sets low profit margins as an important threshold for product retention, some products will inevitably be forced to exit the market. Once this demand is released, it may provide opportunities for Arm-based operators like MediaTek and Qualcomm to enter, especially in the IPC, edge computing, and IoT markets, where Arm SoCs have advantages in high integration and low power consumption.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a trader used 50x leverage to go long on BNB and ASTER on Aster DEX, achieving multiple returns.Data shows that the trader went long on 230 BNB, with a position value of approximately $171,600, currently yielding about $13,000, with a return rate of 386.51%; at the same time, they went long on 275,674 ASTER, with a position value of approximately $217,600, yielding about $25,600, with a return rate of 589.60%.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, trader Loracle has opened a 3x short position on PONS on Hyperliquid since September 3, holding 25.04 million PONS (approximately 19.41 million USD), with an opening average price of 0.6553 USD, accounting for 19% of the total PONS holdings on Hyperliquid, and is still continuously adding to the position, currently facing an unrealized loss of nearly 3 million USD. This trader has created a zero-fee fork version of Pons.Overseas analyst @mlmabc posted on September 6 to publicly solicit funds to jointly target this short position, stating that there are already commitments of eight-figure capital. Loracle's short liquidation price is 1.83 USD, meaning PONS needs to rise another 128% to trigger liquidation. A similar hunting operation targeting 50x leveraged Bitcoin shorts on Hyperliquid in March 2025 had previously attracted attention.

On September 7, well-known trader Bonk Guy (@theunipcs) posted that he is looking for low market cap tokens with a market value of less than 1 million dollars, early enough that buying them now seems almost crazy, but with the potential to grow into a multi-billion dollar market cap in the future.He urged the community not to recommend tokens at the 50 million dollar market cap level anymore, but to focus on truly early-stage small-cap projects, and stated that he will continue to solicit recommendations until he finds a token that convinces him to make a significant investment.

Bitcoin price fell nearly 1% to around $79,700, as escalating conflicts between the United States and Iran pushed oil prices higher. The U.S. Central Command confirmed on Saturday that it struck three Iranian oil tankers located near Halk Island, Jask, and the Gulf of Oman. Admiral Brad Cooper stated that if Iran attacks U.S. vessels, the U.S. will impose a higher economic cost.The U.S. Central Command updated maritime blockade data, stating that since resuming operations on July 14, it has redirected 92 merchant ships, disabled 3, and boarded 2 for inspection. Oil prices rose by 1% in both the U.S. and European markets, with WTI at $92.72, marking a cumulative increase of over 6% in the past seven days. The rise in oil prices could exacerbate global inflation, making it more difficult for central banks, including the Federal Reserve, to cut interest rates.Additionally, the U.S. employment data for August released last Friday was stronger than expected, reinforcing expectations for an interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve. However, Trump immediately posted on Truth Social calling for a rate cut, stating that a strong nation means lower interest rates. This uncertainty may dampen risk appetite for Bitcoin and the broader market. Furthermore, late Sunday night, the Liquid Network, used by exchanges as a settlement layer, suffered a $320 million attack.

According to the Chosun Ilbo report on September 7, SK Hynix is accelerating the increase of the production share of 10-nanometer sixth-generation (1c) DRAM. Industry data shows that its 1c DRAM share rose from about 10% in the first quarter of this year to about 13% in the second quarter, and is expected to reach about 24% in the third quarter and about 34% in the fourth quarter; it may rise to about 35% in the first quarter of next year, surpassing 1b (about 33%) for the first time and becoming the main process. The share of 1b (10-nanometer fifth-generation) DRAM peaked at about 43% in the second quarter of this year and has since begun to decline.By the end of the second quarter, Samsung Electronics had a 1c share of about 16% and Micron about 19%, both higher than SK Hynix's approximately 13%. Reports indicate that SK Hynix is accelerating the transition in the second half of the year, and in the fourth quarter, it may exceed Samsung Electronics' approximately 31% with about 34%. SK Hynix stated in its second-quarter earnings call that the supply of DRAM using the 1c process will substantially begin from the second quarter, and in the second half of the year, with the ramp-up of HBM4 and increased shipments of 1c general DRAM, the bit growth rate will be higher than in the first half.Samsung Electronics will use 1c DRAM starting with HBM4, with a running speed of about 11.7Gbps; SK Hynix previously prioritized ensuring mass production stability with verified 1b DRAM and advanced MR-MUF packaging, and will use 1c DRAM for the first time as the core chip for HBM starting with the next generation HBM4E. Counterpoint Research and others estimate that this year, the market share of HBM4 under the combined metrics of Nvidia, Google, and AMD is approximately 50% for SK Hynix in the mid-range, 20% for Samsung Electronics in the later range, and 10% for Micron in the later range.

A Bitcoin wallet created in 2016 transferred 1260.77 BTC at block height 965770, with the funds being sent to an unknown P2WPKH address. The wallet was created on July 9, 2016, when the holdings were valued at approximately $819,500, and the current value has exceeded $10 million.Nearly 75 Casascius physical Bitcoins were redeemed six days before September. On September 3, 14 first series Casascius Bitcoins were redeemed, about 15 the next day, and on September 5, a single day reached 40. Casascius physical Bitcoins were produced by Mike Caldwell from 2011 to 2013, made of materials including brass, silver, and gold-plated, with embedded digital BTC. The so-called "peeling" or "redeeming" refers to removing the coin hologram sticker and using the private key inside to transfer digital BTC.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale transferred 10.2 million USD from CEX to Hyperliquid two days ago and then added a deposit of 4.5 million USD in USDC. Currently, it holds a total value of 106.6 million USD in short positions, with an unrealized loss of 19.62 million USD. Among these, the short position in ZEC has an unrealized loss of 14.19 million USD, and the short position in HYPE has an unrealized loss of 5.32 million USD. Over the past 20 days, this whale has accumulated a loss of 20.17 million USD.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that the Poseidon hash function series, developed over many years, has generated significant practical value in Ethereum and other fields, and will continue to play a role in the coming years.Modern privacy protocols can quickly generate SNARK proofs on the client side, and Poseidon is one of the important reasons for this. Vitalik pointed out that today's general-purpose STARK has achieved extremely high performance, with the proof overhead for almost any batch computation reduced to three-digit levels, and it is expected to further drop to two-digit levels or even lower in the future, a development that has even exceeded expectations from the early 2020s.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, the sleeping Bitcoin transactions that occurred yesterday came from multiple early mining addresses. These addresses mined 50 BTC each at Bitcoin block heights 43361, 43452, 43647, 43680, 43765, 43855, and 43871, totaling 350 BTC. However, according to their research findings, the aforementioned blocks were not mined by Bitcoin's founder Satoshi Nakamoto.

Whale Alert stated that the dormant transactions activated yesterday involved addresses that mined 50 BTC in Bitcoin blocks 43361, 43452, 43647, 43680, 43765, 43855, and 43871. Whale Alert indicated that, according to its research, the aforementioned blocks were not mined by Satoshi Nakamoto.

Bitwise's Head of Research for Europe, André Dragosch, pointed out in a client memo that the 90-day correlation between Bitcoin and gold has reached its highest level in nearly six years. Bitcoin rose by 22.4% in a week, marking the largest weekly gain since March 2024, while gold increased by about 5%, and the stock market declined. The last time similar data appeared was in 2020, when governments and central banks around the world implemented fiscal and monetary stimulus measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Bitwise noted that according to its 90-day indicator, as of the end of August, Bitcoin had a negative correlation with the US dollar index, which means that a weakening dollar would be beneficial for Bitcoin and gold.

As of September 5 at 14:00, Bitcoin miners' holdings were approximately 1.1919 million BTC, an increase of 261 BTC compared to a week ago, marking the first weekly growth of this scale in about two weeks since August 26.During the same period, the 7-day average hash rate of Bitcoin was approximately 934 million TH/s, an increase of about 41.11 million TH/s compared to a week ago. The Bitcoin Puell Multiple rose to 1, an increase of 0.04 compared to a week ago.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated that as BTC returns to around $82,000, the open interest of Binance Bitcoin contracts has increased by nearly 8% in the past 24 hours, surpassing $10 billion, and reaching a new high in nearly 6 months.The open interest measured in BTC has also risen to 125,830 coins.

Cryptocurrency KOL XXAntiWar posted on platform X again after nearly a year, stating: "Believe that the bull will come, and the bull will come; believe that you will get rich, and money will come into your pocket."Subsequently, XXAntiWar wrote "Come Wealth" continuously and added the text "With gratitude, I receive. Money loves me and I believe."

Trader Unipcs (Bonk Guy) posted that his fomo investment portfolio, after first breaking the $10 million mark yesterday, has now reached a historical high of $20 million, claiming to be the first trader to achieve this scale on the platform.According to the disclosed data, the profit in the past 24 hours was approximately $4.7 million, the profit in the past 7 days was approximately $12.8 million, the profit in the past 30 days was approximately $14.8 million, and the historical cumulative profit was approximately $16.5 million. He stated that recent major profitable trades include PONS, USELESS, MARSCOIN, BASECAT, DELTA, and MICRODUCK, among which PONS has increased over 108 times compared to its average entry price, and both DELTA and MICRODUCK have returns exceeding 10 times.

According to on-chain analysis platform Lookonchain, a newly created wallet just 1 day old spent 752,723 USDC 2 hours ago to purchase 10.2 million $MEME at an average price of $0.074, and the current unrealized profit has reached $388,000.

According to Onchain Lens, early Bitcoin investor Garrett Jin holds approximately 32,760 ZEC short positions through the address "0x92ea...050e9", with a nominal size of about 32.9 million USD. Based on the current ZEC price of 1004 USD, this has resulted in an unrealized loss of about 18.36 million USD compared to the entry price of 444 USD, with a liquidation price of approximately 2609.8 USD.The same address also holds about 1,330 BTC long positions, with an unrealized profit of about 5.15 million USD. The total unrealized profit and loss from both positions amounts to a loss of approximately 13.21 million USD.